7 Facts about Vitamin D You Never Knew

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about vitamin D deficiency and some things you’ve probably never heard about vitamin D.

Vitamin D deficiency can cause:

• A compromised immune system

• Inflammation

• Sleep issues

• Digestive problems

Causes of vitamin D deficiency:

• Gut inflammation

• Missing gallbladder

• Thicker skin

• Darker skin

• Obesity

• Diabetes

• Insulin resistance

• Location (living further from the equator)

• Problems with certain genes

• Infection

• Fatty liver

• Smoking

• Sugar

• Stress

• Statins

• Low-fat diets

• Pollution

• Omega-6 fatty acids

It’s almost impossible to get vitamin D from your diet, so you need to take certain measures to avoid becoming vitamin D deficient.

Important things you may have never learned about vitamin D:

1. Most side effects that occur after taking vitamin D could be caused by a magnesium deficiency.

2. Infrequent large doses of vitamin D may be better than small daily doses.

3. Farm-raised fish have four times less vitamin D than wild-caught fish, and grain-fed animals have less vitamin D than grass-fed animals. Chickens and pigs that roam outside have more vitamin D than those confined indoors.

4. Vitamin D3 is the third biggest factor that improves overall health.

5. Vitamin D2 is very different from vitamin D3 and may inhibit the absorption of vitamin D3 and worsen MS. It’s also not effective to help with lupus or to decrease mortality, whereas vitamin D3 may be effective in these situations.

6. Ten minutes of skin exposure to the sun only provides about 400 IU of vitamin D.

7. Most vitamin D3 supplements in Europe (and possibly around the world) contain corn syrup.

DATA:

https://vitamindwiki.com/VitaminDWiki...

https://vitamindwiki.com/Overview+Vit...

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0:00.0	You know, at one time, I had zero awareness about the importance of vitamins and what they did on
0:08.0	our bodies, especially vitamin D. I've maybe heard about it. Maybe you get it from the sun,
0:13.5	from the foods. I just had zero data on vitamin D and it just wasn't even on my radar. But over time,
0:20.2	when I gained more knowledge about vitamin D, it is the most important vitamin out of all the
0:26.0	vitamins because if you're deficient, boy, your immune system doesn't work. You're going to have
0:29.9	inflammation. You can have all sorts of issues with sleep and digestion. And the list goes on and
0:35.2	on and on. But they may know some of the common reasons why the majority of the population is
0:40.4	deficient about vitamin D, gut inflammation, no gallbladder. As we age, our skin becomes thicker.
0:47.7	We can't absorb vitamin D from the sun. The darker the skin is, the less vitamin D absorption,
0:53.0	because of the melanin, the pigment in the skin, the more obese someone is, the more diabetic
0:59.6	they are, the more insulin resistance they have, the less vitamin D they're going to absorb.
1:03.7	And also where they live, if they live at a high latitude in the north, they're not going to get
1:09.1	much D. And it's virtually impossible to get vitamin D from your diet. People are also more aware
1:14.7	that their genetics have a big play in vitamin D too. There are many different genes that a person
1:18.9	can have a problem with that either makes it difficult to convert into the active form of
1:24.8	vitamin D or just absorb vitamin D. And I have that problem myself. Then you have if a person has an
1:31.2	infection, microbes can downgrade vitamin D receptors and block the absorption vitamin D as their
1:38.2	strategy to overcome your immune system. If someone has a fatty liver or they smoke or they consume
1:45.2	sugar or they go through stress, they're going to absorb less vitamin D. If they're on a statin
1:50.4	or on a low fat diet, they're not going to get as much vitamin D. If there's pollution in the
1:55.8	air or even if they're getting too many omega-6 fatty acids with the soy oil, the corn oil,
2:00.5	the canola oil, that will block vitamin D. But I want to talk about seven things that you probably
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